Wilderness with Simon Reeves - Congo

Help your students get to grips with the tropical rainforest environment of the Congo using this sheet to explore episode 1 of Wilderness with Simon Reeves - The Congo (BBC documentary).

Students gain a greater understanding of the environment and the people who live within the Congo, watching while completing this ready to use question and answer sheet.

Details on the programme

Simon Reeve travels through the Congo, the second-greatest rainforest on earth. In one of the toughest journeys he’s ever undertaken, Simon travels five hundred miles across dense tropical jungle, heading for the region of Salonga, where he searches for one of the rarest and most iconic creatures on the continent - the bonobo

**How to use this sheet
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The worksheet has 19 questions that cover the full 60 minute documentary and comes with a detailed answer sheet with timings for teachers.

Questions on the worksheet explore the following environments and topics:

• Tropical rainforest
• Congo, East Africa
• Ecosystems - plants, animals, climate
• Animal adaptation
• Deforestation

This sheet comes ready to use and in both PDF and Word formats.